Clinton emails: FBI chief may have broken law, says top Democrat
The Democratic leader in the US Senate says the head of the FBI may have broken the law by revealing the bureau was investigating emails possibly linked to Hillary Clinton.
Harry Reid accused FBI director James Comey of violating an act which bars officials from influencing an election.
News of the FBI inquiry comes less than two weeks before the US election.
The bureau has meanwhile obtained a warrant to search a cache of emails belonging to a top Clinton aide.
Emails from Huma Abedin are believed to have been found on the laptop of her estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Fear and suspicion haunt Sinjar a year after liberation from Isis
Yazidi community still feels ghostly and abandoned, its lack of recovery and shattered trust serving a bleak warning of challenges ahead for Mosul region
Beside the sun-bleached bones, the tangles of human hair and greying piles of clothes exposed by wind and rain, a leaflet newly dropped by the Iraqi army fluttered in the wind. “We are coming to save you from Isis!” the text announced, two years too late for those buried in the mass grave below.
Ten minutes’ drive away is the ruined city of Sinjar, where whole streets lie in rubble, shop shutters are still branded with the religion of their owners – Islamic State marked them so that militants knew where to loot – and every tangle of steel and stone could hide an unexploded bomb.
Sinjar and the region around it in northern Iraq, a centre for the minority Yazidi group and symbol of their suffering under Isis, was liberated nearly a year ago. But since then there has been little clearance, no rebuilding, and no formal investigation of the mass graves that have been found – although some are now marked by wire fence or tape. There has been no restoration of public services or call for refugees to return.
Turkey detains editor of secular opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet
The government has also shut more than 100 media outlets and detained dozens of journalists since the coup
Turkish police have detained the editor-in-chief of the secularist opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet and have issued detention warrants for 13 of the paper's journalists and executives, state media and CNN Turk reported.
Murat Sabuncu was detained while authorities searched for executive board chairman Akin Atalay and writer Guray Oz, the official news agency Anadolu said.
Police were searching the homes of Mr Atalay and Mr Oz, the agency added.
The detentions are the latest in a massive crackdown following a failed coup in July by a rogue faction of the military to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Teenage filmmaker highlights the struggle for young LGBTIs in Mali
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Being gay is still a taboo in Mali, a country where the LGBTI community still only exists in the shadows. A young filmmaker, however, recently dared to address the topic. His short film chronicles the everyday life of a young gay man who faces humiliation and physical violence at school.
The film's lead character is a young, effeminate Malian, Fayçal, who is widely suspected of being gay by his classmates. The five-minute production captures how school has turned into a living nightmare for Fayçal, complete with insults, mockeries and physical violence. Heavy silences punctuate the sequences to create an unsettling atmosphere. In one disturbing scene, two classmates corner Fayçal, then beat him and urinate on him. At the tragic end of the film, the students who treated Fayçal so badly are forced to face up to the cruelty that they inflicted.
UNICEF: Air pollution kills 600,000 children yearly
Updated 0047 GMT (0847 HKT) October 31, 2016
UNICEF is calling on world leaders to reduce air pollution, saying it leads to the deaths of more children yearly than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.
Around 600,000 children under age 5 die every year from diseases caused by or exacerbated by outdoor and indoor air pollution, especially in poor nations, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in the introduction to a report titled "Clear the Air for Children."
Air pollution also hurts children it doesn't kill, including the unborn, he said.
Woman in scandal roiling S. Korea says she 'deserves death'
FOSTER KLUG,Associated Press
Telling reporters Monday that she "deserves death," the woman at the center of a scandal roiling South Korea met prosecutors examining whether she used her close ties to President Park Geun-hye to pull government strings from the shadows and amass an illicit fortune.
"Please, forgive me," Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader's daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor's building, according to Yonhap news agency. Using a common expression of deep repentance, she added, "I committed a sin that deserves death."
Choi, wearing a hat and a scarf, her hand pressed to her mouth, was nearly knocked off her feet several times as she tried to walk through a massive crowd of 300 journalists, as well as protesters and security, surrounding the building's entrance. YTN TV station said that Choi, 60, lost her shoe as the throng converged on her, and a protester reportedly tried to enter the building with a bucket full of animal feces.
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